Walkthrough
See the cited-answer workflow
The product should be judged by its behavior: whether answers are grounded in lab evidence, whether sources open cleanly, and whether unsupported questions are refused.
What to look for
- Ask a question in the language your lab already uses.
- Receive an answer grounded in the workspace's own documents.
- Open the citation and inspect the source evidence.
- See a clear refusal when the available corpus cannot support the question.
Refusal behavior
Question: What protocol did we use for the 2022 animal study?
Response: I could not find the protocol in the available sources. I found references to the study, but not enough evidence to identify the procedure. Add the protocol document or ask about the notes currently available.
Cited answer experience
The core workflow: ask a lab document question, read the answer, open the evidence.
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- The workspace chat opens on a lab workspace holding that lab's own protocol documents.
- A researcher types the question “What temperature and time should the autoclave run at?” and selects Ask.
- The answer comes back grounded in the workspace corpus: the autoclave must run at 121 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes for complete sterilization, with a numbered citation marker attached to the claim.
- Selecting that citation opens the cited source, autoclave-protocol.md, and reveals the exact supporting passage the sentence was drawn from.
Onboarding onto a project
A new member follows a guided path through readings, safety, and project context.
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- A new lab member opens the onboarding page for their workspace.
- Their curated path, “New student ramp”, opens with its steps already in order.
- Step one is a required reading: read the autoclave protocol end to end, linked to the project document that later answers cite back to.
- Step two is a required safety item: complete the biosafety induction, linked to the reagent-safety document.
- Step three is an optional meeting: meet your PI and lab manager.
Structured literature review
Workspace papers can be compared without losing method, finding, or evidence state.
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- A researcher opens the literature view for the workspace.
- A saved comparison, “Sterilization methods”, opens as a table with one row per paper.
- The first row covers moist-heat sterilization at 121 degrees Celsius: the method column reads 121 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes and the finding is complete sterilization of labware.
- That row is marked as validated, because it is backed by evidence passages in the workspace corpus.
- The second row covers dry-heat sterilization at 160 degrees Celsius for two hours, a longer cycle suited to moisture-sensitive materials; it carries no evidence passages, so it is not marked validated.
Behind the answers
A lab-admin workflow handles document upload, scan, ingestion, embeddings, provider choice, and usage controls before researchers ask questions.